Toronto ON - exaSound Audio Design, manufacturer of innovative, exceptional fidelity audio products, will present for the first time the new flagship e32 DAC and the new multichannel e38 DAC at the TAVES Consumer Electronics Show.
exaSound’s new e32 stereo flagship DAC and the e38 8-channel DAC are built on the success of its predecessors, the award winning e22 and e28. With a truly balanced design, a high power, high performance headphone amplifier and ultimate resolution volume control, the new exaSound DACs are designed and manufactured entirely in Canada. Only a handful of companies around the world have released DACs based on the new, enhanced ES9028PRO monolithic DAC chip from ESS Technologies.
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Stereophile, one of the most prestigious printed magazines for audiophiles has published the 2016 Fall Edition Recommended Components List. The exaSound e28 DAC is listed as an A+ product
The exaSound PlayPoint network audio player is loaded with support for sample rates up through DSD256 and PCM 384kHz as well as featuring playback modes galore. Enabling its customers to take advantage of whatever high resolution music they have or even resampling lower resolution to something higher with HQPlayer/NAA, is a hallmark of exaSound. You got it? exaSound can play it. Software features such as RoonReady and Roon Server, put the PlayPoint in a very unique class of components.
The PP works very well with its new Kazoo/USB Drive trick, and very easy to set up. It's almost unnerving not to be relying on networked server and storage for a change!
The exaSound/Magnepan room was not a surprise…rather, a comfortable good friend. George Klissarov has this setup tuned quite well, and knows how to get the best out of the Magnepan 1.7 speakers with the exaSound DSD DACs. He certainly did so again at AXPONA ...
The sound quality was outstanding in both UPnP and NAA configurations. The PlayPoint lets you have an excellent multichannel digital music player anywhere there is access to the home network…Having lived with the exaSound e28 for many months, I’m convinced that the addition of the PlayPoint in no way compromises its excellent sound while greatly enhancing its functionality.
A Roon Ready product is a hardware audio player which has implemented RAAT and been certified by the Roon team for proper implementation”. That’s how Roon themselves describe Roon Ready... A recent exaSound firmware update recently introduced Roon Readiness to the PlayPoint...